Our latest coverage of Final Fantasy XIV.
Final Fantasy XIV's Patch 4.01 is upon us. The first major content patch after the launch of Stormblood, Patch 4.01 brings numerous balance changes, and a new raid tier to experience and challenge. Lets go down some of the changes that caught our eye together. Enmity for the Tank jobs has been increased across the board Buffs to Dark Knight [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV announced Server Transfer Incentives with the launch of Stormblood, to help try to help spread the population across the servers. Using unofficial census data from Japanese blog Lucky Bancho, the average amount of players on a standard Final Fantasy XIV is about (and this is an eyeball number), somewhere in the range of 7,000 players per server. [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's turnaround story is one of the greatest in the industry. In 2010, FFXIV 1.0 was a disaster of a game, and was a stain upon the Final Fantasy legacy, but in 2013, it turned itself around completely with the launch of A Realm Reborn. Previously, we covered Noclip's documentary about exactly how Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 failed. Parts [...]
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Square Enix sometimes makes good decisions. Sometimes they make bad ones. This is a bad one. Since the launch of Stormblood, Final Fantasy XIV has implemented a 30-minute AFK kick function. In practice, it's not a bad idea - densely populated servers could see thousands of people trying to log on at once, leaving many stuck in queues that could take [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV is, by all accounts, a fantastic game. Currently 20,280 people worldwide are playing it - and that's just on Steam alone. FFXIV is also available on the PS4, and available on the PC without having to necessarily use Steam. And yet, it wasn't always like this. Final Fantasy XIV, when it first launched on September 30th, 2010, [...]
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This one flew under most people's radar, seeing as how Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion Stormblood has dominated the news for a bit, but a "Welcome Back to Eorzea" campaign is now well underway. There are two requirements to be eligible. Players must have been subscribed to FFXIV for any period of time leading up to January 15th, 2017, and [...]
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Typically MMORPGs, as discussed at the beginning of our Podcast, don't always have a smooth start. The problem was especially worsened for Final Fantasy XIV, where the main scenario, and subsequently the way to unlock all the new zones, was locked behind the infamous 'Raubahn's Wall.' We got a great many memes out of this. Image courtesy of FFXIV Forum [...]
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Today, June 20th, marks the official and full release of FFXIV's latest expansion, Stormblood. Of course, you could have accessed the full game if you had pre-ordered it with Early Access, but lets turn a blind eye to that and celebrate the full official launch of Stormblood! And of course, with the official launch of a new expansion, Square Enix [...]
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I love FFXIV. I really do. This game has taken up the better part of the past three-and-a-half years of my life, and I don't regret it in the slightest. I've made friends, lost friends, and had a great time along the way. So when Square Enix publishes an update such as this, it really turns some heads. "If you [...]
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With Final Fantasy XIV’s next expansion, Stormblood, on the horizon, and early access just around the corner, I thought it would be a good idea to look back at the first expansion we’ve had, Heavensward, and see how far we’ve come from the end of A Realm Reborn, to where we are now. At the time, no one knew what [...]
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